156 sats \ 6 replies \ @elvismercury 19 Mar \ on: Time travel forwards, backwards, or money… mostly_harmless
Jesus this is an amazing question! I love it. Did you make it up yourself?
I can't decide, except I know which one I for sure would not pick. Hmm.
Such a good question.
Okay, I picked. First, I was assuming that the travel into the past / future would mean that I went there and stayed there. With that out of the way, here's my logic:
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I wouldn't go into the future because I think it will be hugely foreign, almost certainly too foreign to adapt to without going mad.
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I was tempted to go to the past, since, given time, I could probably amass $100m just knowing what I already know, and then could influence the world for the better (or so I believe -- obviously hugely biased.) But I'm assuming I would be the age I am now, and I wouldn't want to wait fifteen years to have a ton of money.
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So I picked to have the money now, with the assumption that I could be highly useful and do some high-leverage stuff in that circumstance.
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I made the same choice and had many of the same thoughts. Ultimately, though, it was just that my family is here in this time.
50 years in the future you might just be able to retire on your stack.
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You might be, but you've got a multi-year head start on me.
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I'm imagining the mining orbitals in The Expanse except even weirder. Once they figured out I had btc they'd harvest my guts and put me in some kind of pod.
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